Servers: Database consolidation on Dell PowerEdge R810 servers3Executive summaryAdvances in processor, server, and database technologies enableenterprises to reduce costs by consolidating multiple olderdatabases onto a single newer, faster server. The new DellPowerEdge R810 featuring the latest Intel Xeon Processor 7500series can let organizations realize significant consolidationsavings.This Principled Technologies (PT) Guide is the result of performancetests and consolidation procedures we performed. We provideconcepts and procedures that will help you successfully consolidateyour Microsoft® SQL Server® 2000 instances from multiple olderservers onto a single Windows Server® 2008 R2 system runningSQL Server 2008 R2. We compared the performance and powerconsumption of both the new and old solutions, and then weanalyzed these and other factors to gauge the level of savings youcould realize.As the results from our hands-on tests show, the Dell PowerEdgeR810 server can run as many as 24 older database workloads,each of which will perform as well as if it were on a dedicated olderserver. Such consolidation saves space, reduces systemmanagement costs, lowers licensing costs and decreases powerconsumption by over 85 percent. The result is an estimated